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There has been a lot of focus on the immigration situation these last few days since the signing of Senate Bill 4. In fact, the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, or TRAC, is highlighting the astonishing number of immigration court cases that have been backlogged for many years now.
One of the organization's graphs shows the quarterly growth in immigration court backlog. A new record was reached in November. The backlog you can see has topped 3 million. TRAC noted that each judge has been assigned 4,500 cases, and still, it is not enough to make a dent.
During the last quarter, from July to September 2023, the backlog jumped by nearly 400,000 cases, at an average increase of 130,000 cases per month.
TRAC mentions that if every person with a pending immigration case were to gather, it would be larger than the population of Chicago, which is the third-largest city in the U.S.
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